During Mike's first tour, he served as a gunner on the M2A2 105-mm Howitzer and was assigned to 5RAR, 105 Field Battery, RAA. He was also a radio operator for the battalion's Forward Observers spending a great deal of time outside the wire of the various fire support bases that he served at.

Back in Australia after the first tour, Mike retrained as an Infantryman and redeployed back to Vietnam in May of 1970 as a mortarman with 2RAR/NZ.

Mike was fortunate to have been able to photograph the war from his many vantage points and his photographs today are described as the best "Digger's" photo history that has survived. His photos have appeared in several publications, one that he was kind enough to send along to me is the Winter 2004 issue of the Australian & NZ "Defender" magazine.

Today Mike is retired and enjoying life in Australia. He is an avid collector of mortar memorabilia specializing mostly in German WWII items and has an extensive video library as well as a private collection of photos that were purchased in Germany.